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These Crassula are small, erect, reddish-leaved, succulent, native plants that grow on saturated sandy-clay. Each plant is single stemmed to only 10 mm high by 10 mm wide. The leaves are crystalline, soft and spongy to <5 mm long. The colourful red-pink terminal flowers are cupped shaped to about 3-4 mm across. These are four merous and occasionally five merous with red carpels. Each plant has a bundle of finely descending fibrous roots.The seed is ellipsoid, < 0.05 mm long, tan in colour with fine longitudinal markings.
During August these have grown as single stemmed to around 10-20 mm high (occasionally to 30 mm high) sometimes with 2-3 terminal spreading branches totaling c. 20 mm wide each having up to c. 7 flowers crowded with leaves on the end of each branch.
Photo: Fred
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